New Delhi: In the turbulent Endgame of the Afghan crisis, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai – Sheru to the 1982-class at the Indian Military Academy of Dehradun – has become as many as facing the Taliban India outreach because he is a police officer at the crossroads of the Radical regime for political transition.
Back in the 1970s, when the old generation of Afghanistan suffered the last stretch of peace, Stanekzai and two other people who would go to become the central figure in the history of this troubled nation – the president was overthrown ashraf Ghani and Afghanistan-American Messenger Peace Zalmay Khalilzad – all Busy finding themselves while studying in foreign scholarships.
Stanekzai, now the chairman of the Taliban negotiator, spends the years of military uniforms at the foot of the Himalayas, training in Indian prestigious military schools.
At rest, his Young Afghan generation will find themselves in the Kashmir hills, or in the set of Bollywood films hoping for photos with stars.
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At that time, the line of ideology returned to the house had united – on the one hand, the communist approach looked towards the Soviet Union; On the other hand, a wave of Ikhwanul Muslimin conservatism.
Some former Stanekzai classmates in India said he was mostly dodged from politics.
But they remember that he leaned towards personal conservatism, including avoiding nonhalal meat.
“He is the most batch discipline, very focused and organized,” recalled Abdul Razique Samadi, who was Senior Stanekzai at IMA.
“Even if he smoke cigarettes, he will do it far from our attention.” Afghanistan Life Crisis UpdateThere little shows that Stanekzai will someday become a maid to one of Taliban’s main guerrilla commander, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf.
His role is as a liaison with Pakistani military intelligence – the relationship, according to those who have known him, has formed his political career.
While the ideological Stankekzai was with an anti-Soviet mujahideen, as urban he was not socially fit, one of the friends who knew him well in the 1980s said.
In Quetta, Pakistan, where their group is operated, he often goes to restaurants with his wife, the subject of gossip among fighters.
FRIENDS Remember Stanekzai scolded his Mujahideen colleague for obsolete ideas about keeping women hidden at home.
When Pakistan supported by Taliban took over Kabul, swept after the anarchist civil war which was followed by Soviet withdrawal, Stanekzai became the deputy minister of foreign countries.
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He traveled to the US to look for, unsuccessful, diplomatic recognition by the Bill Clinton government.
His name regularly appeared in the Taliban newspaper, Shariat.
In 1998, Shariat recorded changes in Stanekzai: he was replaced as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then stopped appearing in the news report at all for a long stretch.
According to several officials in Kabul at that time, Stanekzai ran collided with the Taliban leadership, perhaps for reasons involving abuse of power and weak attitude towards alcohol.
He was placed under house arrest, and was said to have become a personal focus of anger by the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar at that time.
What Stanekzai stored, according to his friends, is a continuous connection with the Pakistani military intelligence agency, which holds the influence of Taliban leadership.
A few months later, he reappeared in a capacity to be lowered his status, as Deputy Minister of Health.
Stanekzai, however, denied alleged irregularities and said his move from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Ministry of Health was routine the government of the reshuffle.
Today, it is a face on TV, talking about how the Taliban wants relationships with India as before, focusing on trade and other economic activities.
In recent television speech, he even talked about the possibility of trade with India through Pakistan, while also calling for air routes to stay open.
(NYT and TNN)